Hear interviews with survival book authors about their prepper fiction masterpieces. Get insights into your favorite authors and maybe even meet new ones.

Once a month, we discuss a different prepper fiction author. The authors tell us how they got into writing, what inspired their book, their go to rifle, what the best $100 they ever spent was. We also dive into their personal preparedness philosophies, fears, and more.

So your post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction book fetish now has a new enabler. (You’re welcome!) Check out the interviews below.

In this episode, we’re joined by Author RE McDermott. He shares with us who he is, his book Under a Tell Tale Sky, and how life after a coronal mass ejection might go off the rails. Dystopian fiction books in the prepper niche often focus on EMPs. It's a seemingly easy target -- [...]

In this episode, We sit down with author CA Rudolph to discuss his book series What's Left of My World, his writing process, and survival lessons for Dads. What would it take to raise a strong female prepper? Two out of three hosts of ITRH struggle with this. The third just hasn't made any [...]

In this episode, we sit down with Cal Wilson. He’s an attorney by day and a prepper author by night. We discuss his new book about an EMP attack and life afterward. If you think this is just another EMP book, you may be in for a surprise. Tigers and Gorillas included at no extra [...]

In this episode, we sit down with author Franklin Horton to discuss his book series The Borrowed World. It’s a story about an everyday non-super-ninja guy who finds himself far from home and surviving a terrorist attack and it's crippling effects. And the book wrestles with something many of us worry about: What if SHTF while I'm traveling?

In this episode, we sit down with author Brad Manuel. He'll share with us how he crafted a different kind of post-apocalyptic book. There are no super-elite-range-seals. No ninja warriors. Just regular folks trying to survive. But somehow it still caught the attention of the publishers of The Martian. So he might just be on to something. Listen now...

In this episode, we sit down with Tim Maynard author of Southbound: A Story of Survival. His book explores what it might be like for a truck driving survivalist if an EMP were to go off while far from home and his wife. Listen now...

In this episode, we sit down with author Dave Kershner. He’s going to tell us about his book series, how he came to writing, and a glimpse into how a global cascading civilization failure might happen. Listen now...